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July 2014

July 23, 2014

La Nación on soccer and Protestantism in Brazil

Sitting in my "guilt file" of stories I should be covering -- but have not...

July 22, 2014

Pod people: Are all political liberals also on moral left?

Every now and then, Issues, Etc., host Todd Wilken take and I off in one...

July 18, 2014

Changing climate — of church views on the environment

USA Today has been eroding its standard of short, shallow stories. And for a complex...

July 03, 2014

Attention editors: Is there a ‘Little Sisters’ case in your area?

While the post-Hobby Lobby meltdown continues on the cultural and journalistic left -- this New...

May 2014

May 23, 2014

Specific notes of hope, along with the horrors in Nigeria

I don't want to turn this into a trend, or anything. Heaven forbid. However, the...

May 13, 2014

What rights should parents of gay children have in Maryland?

Here we go again. The Baltimore Sun -- the newspaper that lands in my front...

April 2014

April 25, 2014

AP sticks it to Mississippi religious freedom law

Earlier this month, I wrote a post titled "Via AP, a tasty piece on a same-sex...

April 06, 2014

Pentecostal gap in that LATimes immigration reform story

There was an important interfaith gathering the other day in Los Angeles that allowed some...

March 2014

March 28, 2014

World Vision, donors, scripture and ‘online speculation’

It took a few days, but the newspaper of record has now produced a solid...

March 25, 2014

Baltimore Sun prints a plug for ‘meditation’ — one form of it

Long ago, I worked in for a newspaper that published a large, large feature story...

March 13, 2014

Concerning all those angry white married men in pews

It's mid-term election time, which means that it's time, once again, for the mainstream press...

February 2014

February 26, 2014

Got news? A Baptist emerges as acting president of Ukraine

The news rolls on in Ukraine, with leaders of the opposition attempting to get some...

January 2014

January 14, 2014

NYTimes late to the story on ‘Women at the Pulpit’

Proving that when there isn't really news, one can perhaps manufacture some, The New York Times...

December 2013

December 22, 2013

There’s that Baltimore Ravens faith ghost — again

The Baltimore Ravens have been playing some really, really wild football games in recent weeks,...

December 21, 2013

That oh-so-predictable CNN article on ducks and doctrine

So color me confused. At the moment, CNN is hailing this article -- "Does Phil...

October 2013

October 15, 2013

Chuck Smith, fundamentalism and (yes) the AP stylebook

Readers who have been following this weblog through the years are probably familiar with the...

October 08, 2013

Zen Pastor Mariano Rivera and his vague, comforting karma

Lat's state the obvious: It's getting harder and harder for news consumers to figure out...

September 2013

September 04, 2013

Hey AP: Where is religious left on religious liberty issues?

A long, long time ago, 1998 to be precise, I wrote a column marking the...

August 2013

August 22, 2013

The heroism of Antoinette Tuff

A reader sent along a link to a story about an amazing woman who talked...

August 19, 2013

Missing half of America’s changing ecumenical landscape

A long, long, long time ago I covered a press conference featuring leaders of the...

July 2013

July 25, 2013

Hearing Francis through the ears of politics

We believe only what we want to believe, George Orwell observed in 1945. "So far...

July 19, 2013

The AP discovers the Christian hipster pastor

Does your pastor wear v-neck shirts, have tattoos on both forearms, and ride a fixed-gear...

June 2013

June 20, 2013

What about those prayers for Dwyane Wade’s pains?

Greetings, GetReligion sports fans. Anyone who has been following the news lately knows that the...

June 09, 2013

Tintin and the Catholic Charismatics

The story so far ... Intrepid reporter Tintin, accompanied by his faithful fox terrier Snowy, has...

May 2013

May 23, 2013

Pope Francis’ ‘obsession’ with the devil

It's kind of charming that all popes have to deal with bad media coverage and...

May 04, 2013

Beware of creepy, crooked, cash-flush Pentecostals

Non amo te, Sabidi, nec possum dicere quare; Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te....

April 2013

April 10, 2013

Memory eternal: The faith and times of McCandlish Phillips

If you wanted to know who John McCandlish Phillips was, as a New York Times...

April 02, 2013

God and Allah at an Easter service shooting

A church in Ashtabula, Ohio, was the scene of a shooting on Easter Sunday. Just...

February 2013

February 08, 2013

Puff piece on Office of Faith-based Partnerships

The New York Times has published a letter of reference for the Rev. Joshua DuBois,...

January 2013

January 31, 2013

Megan Fox, glossolalia and AP Style (you read that right)

The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law is a lot of things and...